Software Engineer Computer Science

Anoop Korattikara Balan 949-***-****

O : ****, Donald Bren Hall, University of California Irvine, CA 92697 ********@***.***

http : //www.ics.uci.edu/ akoratti/

Education

University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Max Welling) Sep. 2011 - Present

University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA

Master of Science in Computer Science, GPA - 3.98/4.0 Sep. 2009 - Mar. 2011

National Institute Of Technology Calicut, India

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication, GPA - 8.17/10 Sep. 2002 - Apr. 2006

Primary Research - E cient Large Scale Machine Learning using Stochastic Mini-Batches

Statistical Optimization: We devise principled and statistically motivated techniques to highly speed up

learning algorithms (such as NMF, GLMs, SVMs etc) using frequentist hypothesis tests to determine the

amount of data required in each iteration to make parameter updates.

Approximate Bayesian Inference: We develop approximate sampling algorithms that require only

computations proportional to the size of a mini-batch to generate each sample from a posterior

distribution, instead of the whole dataset as in traditional MCMC algorithms.

Skills

Areas: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Optimization, Algorithms

Programming Languages: MATLAB, C#, C++, C, Visual Basic

Publications

Bayesian Posterior Sampling via Stochastic Gradient Fisher Scoring, ICML 2012 - Sungjin Ahn, Anoop

Korattikara, Max Welling - Winner of Best Paper Award

Statistical Tests for Optimization E ciency, NIPS 2011 - Levi Boyles, Anoop Korattikara, Deva Ramanan,

Max Welling

Statistical Optimization of Non-Negative Matrix Factorization, AISTATS 2011 - Anoop Korattikara, Levi

Boyles, Max Welling, Jingu Kim and Haesun Park

Patents

Systems and Methods for Cluster Validation, PCT No: WO 2012/054352, Published: 04/26/2012

Systems and Methods for Cluster Comparison, PCT No: WO 2012/054399, Published: 04/26/2012

Data Clustering, U.S. Patent Application 201********, Published: 04/19/2012

Selecting Representative Images for Display, U.S. Patent Application 201********, Published: 04/19/2012

-Bradley Denney and Anoop Korattikara Balan applicants

Peer reviewing

Reviewed for IEEE s Transactions on Neural Networksand Learning Systems

Research Grants/ Awards/ Funding

Chairs Fellowship - Donald Bren School of Computer & Information Sciences, UCI 2011-2014

Opportunity Award - Center for Complex Biological Systems, UCI 2010

Other Relevant Projects

Canon Research & Development Center Irvine, CA

Senior Intern June. 2010 - Sep. 2010, Apr. 2011 - Aug. 2011

Content based clustering in gigantic photo collections.

Multiple non-redundant clustering of the same data.

Methods for visualizing image clusters.

Adjusting cluster validation measures for randomness.

University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA

Graduate Class Projects and other Funded Research Sep. 2009 - Dec. 2010

Active Learning/Bayesian optimization of expensive black box functions using Gaussian processes.

Classi cation & regression of model parameters from vessel networks of cancer tumours.

Re-ranking image search results by using PageRank on an image similarity graph.

Visual GPS to determine where the user is, based on pictures taken at the location.

Solving substitution ciphers using Ant Colony Optimization.

Hewlett-Packard Imaging & Printing Group R&D Hub Bangalore, India & Corvallis, OR, USA

Software Engineer Aug. 2006 - Jun. 2009

Defect detection in ink nozzles by observing it under a camera.

Automatic analysis of ink drop impact on media through a camera.

National Institute of Technology Calicut, India

Undergraduate Research Sep. 2005 - Apr. 2006

A Content Based Image Retrieval system based on optimal Gabor lter banks.

Texture based image segmentation.

Automatic Music Transcription.

Awards

Silver Award of the Quarter from HP for taking over the projects which were handled by the Technical

Architect when he left the company and minimizing the impact of his exit on customers

Two Achievement Awards from HP for outstanding work.

1st prize in 2001 and 2nd prize in 2002 in a State Level Piano Competition

Keyboardist of the College Orchestra team which won 2nd prize in a National Level Competition

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